The Sectional Controversy: Or, Passages in the Political History of the United States, Including the Causes of the War Between the Sections

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Seite ix Gain and loss to each section by the “bargain,” Virginia not a party to the bargain,
. - - Slaves recognized as property in the Constitution, . The word “slave” not used
in the Constitution, . Fugitive slaves, - - - - - - - Representation and taxation, ...

Seite 7 The English Quakers, the original settlers, gave a certain character to
Pennsylvania, just as the Roman Catholics did to Maryland, just as the prelatical
cavaliers did to Virginia, just as did the French Huguenots to South Carolina.
ADDITIONAL ...

Seite 8 The people of New Hampshire, New Jersey, Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia,
were under what was called a Provincial Government, in which the Governors
were appointed by the Crown. The people of Maryland, Pennsylvania, and ...

Seite 9 The Assembly of Virginia warned the king of the danger that would ensue, “if any
person in any part of America should be seized and carried beyond sea for trial,”
May 16, 1769. Of the resolves passed by Virginia at this time, Bancroft says: “Is it
...

Seite 11 The amendment was rejected by the votes of New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, against those
of Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Delaware; Georgia being ...

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Seite 204 - I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...

Seite 246 - And the articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the union shall be perpetual ; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.

Seite 211 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.

Seite 45 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights,...

Seite 26 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...

Seite 60 - Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.

Seite 211 - That the new dogma, that the Constitution, of its own force, carries slavery into any or all of the Territories of the United States, is a dangerous political heresy, at variance with the explicit provisions of that instrument itself, with contemporaneous exposition, and with legislative and judicial precedent; is revolutionary in its tendency, and subversive of the peace and harmony of the country.

Seite 223 - Britain: and finally we do assert and declare these colonies to be free and independent states,] and that as free and independent states, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and to do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do.

Seite 165 - I speak to-day for the preservation of the Union. "Hear me for my cause." I speak to-day, out of a solicitous and anxious heart, for the restoration to the country of that quiet and that harmony which make the blessings of this Union so rich, and so dear to us all.